Parsing Localized Strings in JavaScript

September 10, 2004 – 12:00 am

Now I discover (well, the testers discover) JavaScript does not take locale into consideration when attempting to parse a float.
So if you’re localized to Belgium, then parseFloat (’134,39′) returns 134.
You’ll need to wrap parseFloat appropriately.

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Localized Date Parsing in JavaScript

September 7, 2004 – 12:00 am

Well heck. The JavaScript Date constructor’s not as smart as I thought (at least in Mozilla and Safari.)
I found this out while round-tripping a date.
I’m adding a row to a table.
var d = new Date (’m/y/d’);

var ds = d.toLocaleDateString ();

The localized string became a text node in a table cell.
Later on, I want to use [...]

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